Scarborough, Western Australia
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Scarborough is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government area is the city of Stirling. It is approximately 13 kilometres by road, northwest from the center of Perth via the Mitchell Freeway. Nearby suburbs include Doubleview to the east, Trigg to the north, and City Beach to the south.
It has a population of about 12,000 people (2001 census), of whom about 25% were born overseas. Of those, most were born in the United Kingdom; only a small percentage were born in non-English speaking countries.
A coastal suburb named after the English beach resort Scarborough, it currently has the only high-rise five-star resort on the Western Australian coastline. Its post code is 6019.